Comments and Revisions on Deng Xiaoping’s Draft Report on the Rectification Campaign [1] (September 20, 1957) 1. To Comrade Xiaoping: This document is very good.
There are a few minor revisions; please decide as you see fit.
It would be best if this could be distributed to all those present by tonight.
Mao Zedong, 1:00 A.M., September 20, based on the manuscript. 2. We should strive, during the Second Five-Year Plan period, to bring the majority of cooperatives up to or beyond the production level of the affluent middle peasants in the local area.
Printed from Mao Zedong’s manuscript.
This section (2) is a sentence added by Mao Zedong while reviewing the draft report on the Rectification Campaign that Deng Xiaoping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, had prepared to deliver at the Third Plenary Session of the Eighth CPC Central Committee.
The report was published in the People’s Daily on October 19, 1957.